Through a joint venture with California-based agricultural firm Pomona Farming, the Public Sector Pension Investment Board of Canada is buying about 165 square kilometres of land to diversify into GMO-free farms.
L’augmentation du prix de la terre en Uruguay a conduit les entrepreneurs dans les secteurs de l’agriculture et de l’élevage à acheter des terres moins chères au Paraguay.
Representatives of Phoenix Agro Industry and Trade Company CA expressed their intention to invite the world's leading agronomists to Uzbekistan to study the land plots allocated for investment.
In California's wine country, Harvard University's multi-billion dollar endowment is looking to take advantage of water scarcity.
ANZ Banking Group violated its own policies and international human rights standards by financing a Cambodian sugar company that seized land from local farmers, according to a report released by an Australian government body that monitors corporate behavior overseas.
Interview activist Nasako Besingi, the Director of the Cameroonian organization Struggle to Economize the Future Environment (SEFE), which supports local communities’ land rights struggles mainly against palm oil plantations.
The courageous victory of the villagers of Port Loko to get their lands back is an inspiration to communities affected by oil palm plantations from across Africa and the world.
Harvard University, the US pension fund manager TIAA/Nuveen and Japan's Mitsui are among the foreign companies buying up Brazilian farmlands that are responsible for over 420,000 ha of deforestation in the Cerrado since 2000.
The Indian group Phoenix Agro Industry and Trade Company, headquartered in Dubai, plans to grow and process agricultural products in Uzbekistan.
La magnitud de este fenómeno de apropiación de tierras agrícolas por parte de las financieras tiene importantes consecuencias tanto para las comunidades rurales como para los sistemas alimentarios.
Villagers in Chipinge, Manicaland province have dragged ethanol producer, Green Fuel to court to stop it from occupying their communal land and interfering with their farming activities
BrasilAgro, which is 40% owned by Argentina's Cresud, continues to clear land on its Chaparral farm in Correntina, a municipality in the Brazilian state of Bahia.
